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Melvin Taylor II is a Chicago native who moved to New York City and is going after the dream. Currently he is both producing for Bold TV and hosts his radio show "The Alternative with Melvin Taylor" which can be found on WHCR 90.3 FM-NY (Tuesday 3a-6a est). You can also find him on stage at Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) performing improv or writing for Respect Magazine. In the future, he hopes to host on a national platform while creating more opportunities for talented individuals who are looking to find their way.

So, in other words. After 8 years of having the first African America President, nothing has changed. OMG! I don’t know why, but I find this all ironically hilarious. For one, no one should buy into their fears and take a bunch of white supremacist seriously. It is a foolish group of people. Secondly, it makes the counter protesters (and the majority of people who speak out about this and take sides) all look about as intelligent as a group of uneducated white people, at 12:00 AM midnight, marching with tiki-torches to nowhere without a cause. It is all pointless! And serves no purpose!

And what another wasted week for the media, along with people who think they have morals and along with opinions that matter.

You would think most of these protesters would have better things to do with their lives than protest over nothing all the time.

Carrie Sheffield

Yes thankfully the white supremacists are few and rightly, harshly called out for their moral failure. What’s sad is that Trump said there were some “very fine people” with torches in Charlottesville, chanting “Jews will not replace us” and that is morally repugnant. Charlottesville was not organized by BLM, it was organized by white supremacists (even if there were violent counter-protesters who showed up, too). Great WSJ oped from Jason Riley that we discussed on the show: “Trump Follows Obama’s Example of Moral Equivalence/When five Dallas cops were murdered last year, the 44th president faulted police as well as the killer.”

Carrie Sheffield

Yes thankfully the white supremacists are few and rightly, harshly called out for their moral failure. What’s sad is that Trump said there were some “very fine people” with torches in Charlottesville, chanting “Jews will not replace us” is morally repugnant. Charlottesville was not organized by BLM, it was organized by white supremacists (even if there were violent counter-protesters who showed up, too). Great WSJ oped from Jason Riley that we discussed on the show: “Trump Follows Obama’s Example of Moral Equivalence/When five Dallas cops were murdered last year, the 44th president faulted police as well as the killer.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-follows-obamas-example-of-moral-equivalence-1502836445

Gloone

It is true. Trump’s remarks are indefensible and baseless. He clearly hasn’t learned to bite his tongue and there is no reason to defend a group of people like this. If the alt-right is what we have seen from pictures and media coverage in Charlottesville; younger, decently groomed and dressed. Then my final conclusion is that this is a generation raised on South Park, Reddit, and Social Media. So what do you really expect from a group of people like that? It only breeds hate when people choose to live in the past and not let go of it or move on and learn from it. Sad thing is, to many people choose to stay there (in the past) and try to drag everyone else back with them.